Re: closet conlanging

Nik:
> Sally Caves wrote:
> > The certain kind
> > of  narrow opinion that keeps  all us adult conlangers from revealing what
> > we do to most outsiders (lest we be called adolescent) exerts a similar
> > (though by no means as oppressive) a force on our silence as homophobia
> > does.  At least that's how I had interpreted And's remark.  It has to be a
> > truism, because nobody could take seriously the notion that religiosity is a
> > primarily adolescent phase.
>
> I took it that remark as stating that teenagers often experiment with
> many things, including homosexuality, conlanging, and religiousness.
> Some of these things strike a chord, so to speak, and stay with them,
> they find that that is who they really are, weather that's a gay person,
> a conlanger, or a religious person, and others find that that's *not*
> what they are, and so it can be described as a "phase" that they go thru
> without denigrating those for whom it's not a phase.  Perhaps I'm
> reading too much into that comment, tho.
This is what I meant, except that I wouldn't endorse the "experiment with"
and "who they really are/not what they are" bit - I believe it's possible to
"really be" a gay/bi religious communist conlanger at 16 and to "really be"
none of these at 40. ***And vice versa.*** It's just that the vice versa is
saliently less usual.
--And.